City of Girls

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Nineteen-year-old Vivian Morris arrives in New York City in the summer of 1940 with nothing but a sewing machine and a heretofore unindulged taste for adventure. Finding employment as seamstress at the Lily Playhouse, a charmingly down-at-heel Manhattan revue, Vivian quickly becomes the toast of the showgirls, transforming the tat only fit for the cheap seats into creations for goddesses. Adventure and opportunity blossom on every corner of this strange wartime city of girls, and Vivian and her girlfriends mean to down New York to its last drop. But there are hard lessons to be learned, and bitterly regrettable mistakes to be made. Vivian learns that to live the life she wants, she must live many lives, ceaselessly and ingeniously making them new.

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A SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER

‘Stunning’
Lisa Taddeo, author of THREE WOMEN

‘Warm and wise’

Stephanie Merritt, Observer

‘Glamorous, sexy, compelling’

Dolly Alderton, Sunday Times

‘I fell in love with Vivian from page one’

Daisy Buchanan

‘An education in love, and an iridescent delight’

Rowan Pelling, Spectator

New York, 1940. Young, glamorous and inseparable, Vivian and Celia are chasing trouble from one end of the city to the other. But there is risk in all this play – that’s what makes it so fun, and so dangerous. Sometimes, the world may feel like it’s ending, but for Vivian and Celia, life is just beginning.

City of Girls
is about daring to break conventions and follow your desires: a celebration of glamour, resilience, growing up, and the joys of female friendship – and about the freedom that comes from finding a place you truly belong.

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Weight 0.548 kg
Dimensions 19.8 × 12.9 × 3.8 cm
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Imprint

Cover

Paperback

Pages

495

Language

English

Edition

1st paperback ed

Dewey

813.6 (edition:23)

Readership

General – Trade / Code: K

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